Web-Hosted Solution: BVS Express

BVS Express Commercial Property Valuation: Proven Reliability, Web-Based Flexibility

MSB’s BVS suite of valuation tools for commercial and agricultural risks is the preferred solution for underwriters, agents, reinsurers and risk mangers. These professionals understand the importance of reliable property reconstruction costs to accurately value and aggregate exposures, set adequate rates and limits of insurance, and manage commercial risks and books of commercial properties.

Today, the most successful commercial and agricultural lines carriers depend upon BVS Express® to instantly deliver BVS valuation technology through convenient browser access. Hosted on the Internet-based MSB Express™ platform, BVS Express is a powerful and efficient deployment option for companies looking for additional flexibility, lower cost of ownership, and value-added features made possible through a service-based utilization model.

BVS Express delivers verified property reconstruction costs on commercial risks, including industrial, retail, and institutional properties, as well as agricultural buildings and structures. BVS Express features an efficient, user-friendly design that fits seamlessly into front-line workflows. As important, this powerful application archives detailed, component-based building data for business intelligence analytics and book of business management strategies.  

Web-based deployment of BVS also frees you from maintaining additional hardware and software and enables you to focus on collecting and maintaining consistent valuation information, improving decision making, and managing your commercial property risk.

MSB’s clients choose BVS Express over network or desktop deployment because of these key advantages:

• Accessibility: MSB delivers quarterly data feeds in a single, transparent, off-hour process, freeing you from allocating resources to test, distribute and support data updates. Users in multiple locations access the same application and central database from anywhere that has Internet access.
• Ease of Use: BVS Express provides a common, intuitive, Web-based interface, allowing users to become very efficient with a minimum of training.
• Flexibility: BVS Express is scalable to meet the needs of everyone from the infrequent user (through a subscription account) to the largest customers with customized hardware and software environments.
• Ease of Integration: BVS Express configures as a stand-alone application or, with the addition of MSB’s ExpressLync™ service, integrates into your internal applications through real-time XML data transfers.
• Management Oversight: BVS Express deployment allows MSB to provide you regular reports on user activity and behavior, enabling you to track usage of the software and whether users are following company procedures regarding creating estimates and saving records.
• Central Archiving: MSB stores BVS Express estimates in a secure data center environment, eliminating worry about lost investment in data entry if your local systems fail. Central storage also makes portfolio analytics and auditing feasible and cost-effective.
• Optional features: You can choose to include seamless login from a secure portal and create test environments.